J&J to Pay $8.9 Billion to Settle Talc-Cancer Lawsuits
April 5th, 2023Via: Bloomberg:
Johnson & Johnson said it agreed to pay $8.9 billion to resolve all cancer lawsuits tied to its talc-based powders and will make a fresh attempt to contain the liability within a bankruptcy filing by one of its units.
Twitter Labels NPR “State Affiliated Media”; Elon Musk Says “Seems Accurate”
April 5th, 2023Via: Summit News:
Twitter placed a label on NPR’s account Tuesday describing the outlet as “State-affiliated media,” with owner Elon Musk commenting that the description “seems accurate.”
Twitter’s guidelines state “Labels on state-affiliated accounts provide additional context about accounts that are controlled by certain official representatives of governments, state-affiliated media entities, and individuals associated with those entities.”
Well-Known Crypto Tech Exec Murdered In San Francisco Stabbing
April 5th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
Well-known crypto tech executive Bob Lee was stabbed to death early Tuesday morning near downtown San Francisco.
The 43-year-old Lee was perhaps best known for starting Cash App, and as former CTO of Square. He was the chief product officer of San Francisco-based crypto startup MobileCoin.
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San Francisco police responded at around 2:35 a.m. to a report of a stabbing in the city’s relatively safe Rincon Hill neighborhood, where they found Lee still alive.
He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, CBS News reports.
AstraZeneca Clot Shot Is No Longer Available In Australia
April 5th, 2023In other news from Australia: ‘Excess Deaths’ Are the Highest Since World War II
Via: Dr. John Campbell:
The Decades of Evidence That Antidepressants Cause Mass Shootings
April 4th, 2023Via: The Forgotten Side of Medicine:
Prior to the Covid vaccinations, psychiatric medications were the mass-prescribed medication that had the worst risk-to-benefit ratio on the market. In addition to rarely providing benefits to patients, there is a wide range of severe complications that commonly result from psychiatric medications.
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There are many serious issues with psychiatric medications. For brevity, this article will exclusively focus on their tendency to cause horrific violent crimes. This was known long before they entered the market by both the drug companies and the FDA. While there is a large amount of evidence for this correlation, it is the one topic that is never up for debate when a mass shooting occurs. I have a lot of flexibility to discuss highly controversial topics with my colleagues, but this topic is met with so much hostility that I can never bring it up. It is, for this reason, I am immensely grateful to have an anonymous forum I can use.
Live: Trump Circus in New York
April 4th, 2023Via: Al Jazeera:
Finland Joins NATO
April 4th, 2023Via: Reuters:
Finland formally joined NATO on Tuesday, its flag unfurling outside the military bloc’s Brussels headquarters, in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, drawing a threat from Moscow of “counter-measures”.
Finland’s accession, ending seven decades of military non-alignment, roughly doubles the length of the border that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization shares with Russia and bolsters its eastern flank as the war in Ukraine grinds on with no resolution in sight.
Robert Maxwell Goes to Texas: The Story of Bluebonnet
April 4th, 2023Via: Unlimited Hangout:
Understanding Bluebonnet requires unpacking a tangled and diffuse web of fraudsters, intelligence assets, bankers and real estate developers who together rampaged across Texas and surrounding states during the mid-1980s, bilking and crashing a near-limitless number of thrifts and related lending institutions in a then-unprecedented spree of brazen financial crime. Much of this was exactly what the mainstream narrative of the S&L crisis said it was: runaway greed enabled by deregulatory fever, which allowed crooks to spirit away untold sums. Yet, this isn’t the full picture. In many instances, it seems that money was siphoned off into offshore accounts, where it was then used to help finance covert intelligence operations—support for the Contras of Nicaragua, and for the transfer of arms and sensitive technology to the Middle East.
Trump Leaves Florida for New York Ahead of Expected Surrender and Arraignment
April 3rd, 2023Update: Trump to be Charged Tuesday with 34 Felony Counts:
Donald Trump will be placed under arrest on Tuesday and informed that he has been charged with 34 felony counts for falsification of business records, according to a source who has been briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of the former president.
A New York City police arrest report summarizing the charges against Trump will then be prepared and entered into the court system before he is led into a courtroom to be formally arraigned on the charges, none of which are misdemeanors.
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Via: CBS:
Former President Donald Trump is en route to New York City after leaving Florida on Monday ahead of his planned surrender Tuesday afternoon to face criminal charges.
Trump left his residence of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach at 12:20 p.m. ET in a black SUV and is flying via private aircraft to LaGuardia Airport, where he will then head to Trump Tower and spend the night.
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization, “I Hope There’s Nobody Inside There”
April 3rd, 2023I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been reading, watching and listening to things like this all weekend.
Via: Lex Fridman:
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